“常识”与传统中国州县司法——从一个疑难案件(新会田坦案)展开的思考

自晚清变法修律以来,学界多批评传统州县司法的主要弊端是行政兼理司法和与此相关的非专业化司法,现在发现了大量反映传统司法实际运作的司法档案材料,此种观点有了反思的必要和可能。事实上,从传统中国州县司法的实际运作来看,其重点是查清案情和进行判决,起决定作用的是“常识”而非“专业知识”,而且“常识”才是传统地方司法所真正需要的。这种“常识”包括了“律学常识”、官员“伦理常识”和“地方性常识”等部分,从而具有浓厚的主观性、地方性和个人化特征,使得传统地方司法更依赖于官员个体。从司法独立和专业司法的眼光来审视传统是一种时代错位,它忽略了制度与社会需要之间的对应关系,既不利于学术研究,同时也回避了建立现代司法体系的真正阻力所在。     

现实已经发生——论我国地方性刑事证据规则

地方性刑事证据规则与全国性刑事证据立法相对应,我国各地广泛开展了制定和实施刑事证据规则的试点,具有一定的进步性,但又存在广泛的问题,其产生的动因主要是防止冤假错案,保持司法公正和增强法律的可操作性,今后我国应该走全国统一刑事证据规则的道路。     

海外投资的外交保护

海外利益是指境外的国家利益,属于国家利益的组成部分。WTO规则,特别是与贸易有关的投资协定更是国际法规则的一部分。外交保护是指一国针对其国民因另一国国际不法行为而受的损害,以国家的名义为该国国民采取外交行动或其他和平解决手段。对海外投资的外交保护是海外投资保护的最后的也是最有效的途径和方式,可以进一步维护和拓展中国的海外利益。     

国家社会化进程中检察机关的历史重任

国家社会化态势在中国呈现得迅猛而广泛,涉及到社会生活的各个层面,其动力来自于市场经济的发展、政府职能的转变和社会力量的迅速壮大。当下中国面临的突出问题,是经济快速发展所引起的国家与社会的不适应症,表现出明显的管理失控、立法滞后、运行失序等症状。在此进程中,检察机关理应承担更为艰巨的历史重任,用法律监督填充国家社会化留下的监管真空,拓展监督范围以适应社会的需要,不能重国家而轻社会。     

Beyond 'Do No Harm': The Challenge of Constructing Ethical Relationships in Refugee Research

This paper highlights some of the central ethical challengesinvolved in undertaking social science research with refugeesin conflict and crisis situations. It focuses on two main setsof challenges: first, the difficulties of constructing an ethicalconsent process and obtaining genuinely informed consent; andsecond, taking fully into account and responding to refugeeparticipants' capacities for autonomy. The authors also discussthe challenges involved in applying the central normative principlesgoverning ethics review processes—the principles of beneficence,integrity, respect for persons, autonomy and justice—tothe context of refugee research. It is argued that researchersshould seek ways to move beyond harm minimization as a standardfor ethical research and recognize an obligation to design andconduct research projects that aim to bring about reciprocalbenefits for refugee participants and/or communities. Some ofthe methodological issues raised by this analysis are discussedin the conclusion.     

临时性许可上升的法律问题——透视地方人大及其常委会的立法和监督职权

地方人大及其常委会在做好涉及临时性许可的政府规章上升为地方性法规工作时,首先要正确理解行政许可法的立法原意,“一年”的期限是地方政府就临时性许可提请地方人大及其常委会启动立法程序的期限;同时还要主动把握立法权限和时机,对临时性许可的合法性和合理性进行“再审查”,切实履行人大的立法和监督职责。     

Justice,Fairness, and World Ownership

It is a central tenet of most contemporarytheories of justice that the badly-off have aright to some of the resources of the well-off.In this paper, I take as my starting point twoprinciples of justice, to wit, the principle ofsufficiency, whereby individuals have a rightto the material resources they need in order tolead a decent life, and the principle ofautonomy, whereby once everybody has such alife, individuals should be allowed to pursuetheir conception of the good, and to enjoy thefruits of their labour in pursuit of suchconception. I also endorse the value offairness, whereby the right person orinstitution makes the decision as to whether tobring about justice.I show that justice and fairness can besatisfied only if we all enjoy a combination ofprivate and collective rights over the world.In making that case, I shall argue that the setof ownership rights I advocate differs fromreadily available conceptions of restrictedprivate ownership in two important respects.First, it is such that in some circumstances,two individuals or more can have control rightsover the same property at the same time, not,as is standardly the case in legal systems, bycontracting with one another (through gifts andjoint purchase), but simply on grounds ofjustice. Second, it allows that, if necessary,property-owners be expropriated from theirproperty without compensation.     

地方治理理论的启示

地方治理理论作为研究公共事务的一个新的分析框架,是新兴的治理理论基本理念在地方政府层面的具体化。地方治理理论对于地方政府治理和改革实践,具有三个方面的重要启示:地方政府应当是公共服务的提供者、公共秩序的维护者、公共利益的保障者和公民参与的推动者;应当构建积极的公民资格,培育强烈的公民精神;应当逐步建立和完善公民参与网络,为地方治理的发展奠定坚实的基础。     

银行法中的私人自治原则与国家监管

银行法应当区分为银行私法和银行公法,私人自治是其中的基本原则,银行法许多规范都表现了私人自治原则。通常所提及的国家监管原则只不过是私人自治原则的补充。     

与时俱进 开拓创新 推进禁吸戒毒工作新发展——巍山县公安局努力探索劳动康复戒毒新路子

四年多的禁吸戒毒工作,巍山县公安局做到了现有吸毒人员逐年减少,复吸率大幅度下降,戒断巩固率大幅度提高,禁吸戒毒工作成效显著。具体做法:1、宣传教育全面化;2、收戒吸毒人员制度化;3、帮教管理社会化;4、戒毒模式“劳动康复化”。